Ecclesiastes 11:5 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁵ Before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars be darkened, and the clouds return after the rain:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ As you know not what is the way of the wind, or how the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a pregnant woman, even so you know not the work of God, Who does all.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ As thou knowest not what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child; even so thou knowest not the work of God who doeth all.

Common English Bible

⁵ Just as you don’t understand what the life-breath does in the fetus inside a pregnant woman’s womb, so you can’t understand the work of God, who makes everything happen.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ In the same manner that you do not know the way of the spirit, nor the way that bones are joined together in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you do not know the works of God, who is the Maker of all.

Ecclesiastes 11:5 Cross References

Job 37:23

Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?

Job 38:4

0 I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors :

Job 5:9

4 They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night.

Psalm 104:24

1 May the glory of the Lord endure for ever: the Lord shall rejoice in his works.

Psalm 40:5

2 For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head : and my heart hath forsaken me.

Psalm 92:5

2 The just shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow up like the cedar of Libanus.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

Laughter I counted error: and to mirth I said: Why art thou vainly deceived?

Ecclesiastes 1:6

3 And I proposed in my mind to seek and search out wisely concerning all things that are done under the sun. This painful occupation hath God given to the children of men, to be exercised therein.

Ecclesiastes 11:4

Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the time of affliction come, and the years draw nigh of which thou shalt say: They please me not:

Ecclesiastes 3:10

7 And I said in my heart: God shall judge both the just and the wicked, and then shall be the time of every thing.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

8 I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, that God would prove them, and shew them to be like beasts.

Ecclesiastes 7:24

I observe the mouth of the king, and the commandments of the oath of God.

Ecclesiastes 8:17

Go then, and eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with gladness: because thy works please God.

Isaiah 40:28

The islands saw it, and feared, the ends of the earth were astonished, they drew near, and came.

John 3:8

6 For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in him, may not perish, but may have life everlasting.

Romans 11:33

So we being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.